Architecture Student Describes the Process of Building Her Desert Shelter

When Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fellowship at Taliesin and Taliesin West was first developed, architecture students learned by doing, when they created their own desert shelters to live in. Today, this tradition lives on through School of Architecture at Taliesin students. After months of hard work, student Xinxuan Liu’s shelter is nearing completion. Here she dissects the process of creating and building the shelter from start to finish, and what she learned along the way.

Xinxuan Liu | Apr 30, 2019